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Novi Lim
Yūgen, Original Contemporary Framed Blue Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas

2021

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Yūgen, Original Contemporary Framed Blue Abstract Painting, 2021 31.5" x 31.5" x 2" (HxWxD) Framed 30" x 30" x 1.5" (HxWxD) Acrylic on Canvas An abstracted floral composition flows across this large square canvas in swaths of blue, white, and gray paint. The result is a framed painting that evokes a sense of calm within the viewer. Artist commentary: Yūgen (幽玄) is an important concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics. Yūgen is usually translated as “mysterious profundity.” Yūgen means the beauty that we can feel sense into an object, even though the beauty doesn’t exist in the literal sense of the word and cannot be seen directly. If you conceptualize Yūgen as a suggestiveness, lingering memory, aftertaste, or implication, you can more easily understand Yūgen. Imagination is essential for feeling Yūgen I like to transport my mind to a calming place, inspired by memories, and complex organic elements found in nature. Playing with colors and movement, creating new compositions -- my best work comes when there is freedom to create without any strict plan. With intuition and spontaneity taking over, the result is often a surprise. To me, everything flows, and there is always a sense of balance and harmony that can emerge out of disorder. I love the ambiguous and mysterious nature of abstraction. Through self-discovery and experimentation, I am allowing dynamic energy that manifests through the joy of creating. The result is loose interpretations of anything that exists between the mind and reality, therefore each painting is unique and sometimes inexplicable. About the Artist: Ethereal and calming, Novi Lim's painting transports its audience to a land that is both dreamlike yet familiar. Lim Finds inspiration in the natural world, and seeks to capture their essence through an organic and sensory creative process. In the artist's own words: "Often, imagining a mythical flower that blooms and lit up in the nighttime or seeing something as simple as the calming gradient of the colorful sky at sundown, or the surface of water that glimmers which makes me wonder about the mystery of the deepest oceans -- piqued my creative process and subliminal stimuli." Guided by instinctive feeling, Lim lets the movements of her paintbrush flow as she experiments with atmospheric lighting, transparency, and color. The result is an ambiguous landscape that treads between the subconscious and waking world. Details: - Framed size 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inches - Unframed size: 30 x 30 x 1.5 inches - This is a hand painted, original painting - Created in North Carolina, USA - Professional grade acrylic on canvas - Gallery wrapped, triple primed, acid free cotton canvas - Ready to hang with wires and D ring - Signed on the back - UV varnished - Certificate of authenticity included with original - Packaged securely in a wooden crate with Ph-Neutral glassine paper and bubble wrap
  • Creator:
    Novi Lim
  • Creation Year:
    2021
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Width: 31.5 in (80.01 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Boston, MA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 815621stDibs: LU163429555492
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